Whenever I’m shopping online, one of the biggest things I look at when learning about new products is what other people think about it. Best Buy carries many different types of laptops many with similar specs, but what interests me most is how it will perform once a get it home and put it through the paces.
As we’ve been developing the QuickPark site over the past few months, one thing that stuck out in my mind was a need for way for our users to leave feedback about the hundreds of parking locations listed on our site. While this may seem like an easy problem to fix, it is actually quite complicated to design a review system that actually means something. Recently I was reading an article about the complications YouTube has faced with their video rating system, everyone always votes either 5 stars or 1 star. Alternatively you have the Digg system whether people either like or dislike content. After giving it some thought I came up with what is now our user review system.